A man who re-entered the United States illegally after being removed as a felon was sentenced on Nov. 21, 2014, to 5 months’ imprisonment.
Francisco Ramirez-Duran, age 42, from Mexico, received the prison term after an Aug. 15, 2014, guilty plea to one count of illegal re-entry as a felon.
At the guilty plea, Ramirez-Duran admitted he had re-entered the United States without permission after being removed from the country on Aug. 19, 2005. Ramirez-Duran came to the attention of Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) on July 6, 2014, after he was arrested for in Webster County, Iowa, for fishing without a license.
Ramirez-Duran was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. Ramirez-Duran was sentenced to 5 months’ imprisonment. He must also serve a 1-year term of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kevin C. Fletcher and investigated by HSI and the Enforcement and Removal Office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau.
Court file information is available at https//ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is 14-CR-3040.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
